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Subject: [OT] Our next prime minister will be Mark Carney
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:05:28 -0400
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The Liberal leadership convention has finally chosen a new leader and, 
to the shock of almost no one, Mark Carney is the winner. (He got 86% of 
the votes from Liberal Party members, runner up Chrystia Freeland got 
less than 10%.) That means he will become our next prime minister as 
soon as Trudeau formally steps down, which is expected in the next few 
days.

Carney's term as PM may well be rather brief. He's widely expected to 
call an election in the next few weeks, hoping to use a renewed interest 
in the Liberal Party to win. I sincerely hope that voters are not 
fooled: the Liberals have only put lipstick on the pig that is their 
party and will maintain all the same policies as under Trudeau with the 
exception of the much-despised carbon tax. But Carney is even more 
fanatical about Net Zero than Trudeau was and has promised to replace 
the carbon tax with something even more effective - i.e. even more 
destructive of the Canadian economy - so that we can meet his carbon 
reduction goals.

But at least the odious Justin Trudeau is finally on his way out so 
we'll be spared having to endure his performative virtue-signalling.

By the way, Carney has never stood for elected office before and has no 
seat in Parliament, meaning he will not actually be able to participate 
in parliamentary sessions directly. He'll have to delegate others in his 
cabinet to do the things that a prime minister usually does. There's 
precedent for this though so procedures are in place. But it's also why 
Carney will be keen to have an election very shortly: he really needs a 
seat in parliament to look the part of a leader. Here's hoping that 
Carney's fate is to be only a footnote in history, as the guy who was 
Prime Minister for a few short weeks until the next election established 
a massive Conservative Party majority.

-- 
Rhino